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Wise Owl's SQL Training Courses

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Benefits of our SQL training

Not sure if we deserve all the reviews you can see on this site? Here are some of the things we do (very) differently to earn them.

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Friendly and professional training ... guaranteeed▼

How can any training company guarantee the quality of their courses? Here's how:

We limit our courses to no more than 6 people per class.
Unlike almost every other computer training company, we never subcontract or use freelancers - here's why this matters.

The best courseware in the industry? See for yourself▼

Our course manuals and exercises are by some way the best in the computer training industry. Fortunately you don't have to take our word for this - you can see for yourself:

Genuine integrity - and good manners▼

Our values are simple - we treat people as we would like to be treated ourselves. So:

We will - almost never - cancel courses. To see what "almost never" means see our no cancel guarantee.
There's nothing worse than being pestered, so we don't pester people. Ever.
It's dangerous to be sanctimionius, but we can see no possible benefit that tobacco and gambling companies bring to the world (and quite a lot of harm), so we choose not to work for them. Sorry.

You can see more on our corporate values here.

Innovative online training platform▼

We've put a lot of thought into making our online courses as useful and interactive as possbile:

Delegates use Remote Desktop to connect to our machines, so our trainers can see everyone's screens at all time.
We arrange (without charge) a half-hour pre-course check for each online delegate before courses, to ensure that they everyone will be able to join the course seamlessly when it begins.
As well as providing a PDF of the manual and exercises for each online course delegate we will (again without charge) also post this out to each person a few days before if required.

Choose a specific course, or stay on this page to see all of our SQL training.

Course:

Our current SQL scheduled courses

Can't see the dates/course type that you want? Create your own onsite course (and tailor the content too!).

Course	Dates	Venue/type	Duration	Price	UK times
We don't have any scheduled courses for this combination of criteria: please try different options.
Advanced SQL	Thu/Fri 19-20 February 2026 19-20 Feb	Online	2 days	£995.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Fast track SQL	Wed/Fri 25-27 February 2026 25-27 Feb	Online	3 days	£1,350.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to SQL	Tue/Wed 10-11 March 2026 10-11 Mar	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced SQL	Tue/Wed 17-18 March 2026 17-18 Mar	Online	2 days	£995.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Fast track SQL	Mon/Wed 23-25 March 2026 23-25 Mar	Online	3 days	£1,350.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to SQL	Tue/Wed 24-25 March 2026 24-25 Mar	London	2 days	£1,425.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced SQL	Tue/Wed 24-25 March 2026 24-25 Mar	London	2 days	£1,525.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced SQL	Thu/Fri 26-27 March 2026 26-27 Mar	Manchester	2 days	£1,150.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to SQL	Thu/Fri 09-10 April 2026 09-10 Apr	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced SQL	Mon/Tue 20-21 April 2026 20-21 Apr	Online	2 days	£995.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to SQL	Thu/Fri 23-24 April 2026 23-24 Apr	Manchester	2 days	£1,050.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Fast track SQL	Mon/Wed 27-29 April 2026 27-29 Apr	Online	3 days	£1,350.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to SQL	Thu/Fri 07-08 May 2026 07-08 May	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced SQL	Mon/Tue 18-19 May 2026 18-19 May	Online	2 days	£995.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Fast track SQL	Tue/Thu 26-28 May 2026 26-28 May	Online	3 days	£1,350.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to SQL	Thu/Fri 28-29 May 2026 28-29 May	London	2 days	£1,425.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced SQL	Thu/Fri 28-29 May 2026 28-29 May	London	2 days	£1,525.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to SQL	Mon/Tue 01-02 June 2026 01-02 Jun	Manchester	2 days	£1,050.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced SQL	Mon/Tue 01-02 June 2026 01-02 Jun	Manchester	2 days	£1,150.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to SQL	Mon/Tue 08-09 June 2026 08-09 Jun	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced SQL	Thu/Fri 18-19 June 2026 18-19 Jun	Online	2 days	£995.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Fast track SQL	Wed/Fri 24-26 June 2026 24-26 Jun	Online	3 days	£1,350.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to SQL	Thu/Fri 25-26 June 2026 25-26 Jun	Manchester	2 days	£1,050.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to SQL	Wed/Thu 08-09 July 2026 08-09 Jul	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced SQL	Thu/Fri 16-17 July 2026 16-17 Jul	Online	2 days	£995.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Fast track SQL	Mon/Wed 27-29 July 2026 27-29 Jul	Online	3 days	£1,350.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to SQL	Thu/Fri 06-07 August 2026 06-07 Aug	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced SQL	Mon/Tue 17-18 August 2026 17-18 Aug	Online	2 days	£995.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Fast track SQL	Wed/Fri 26-28 August 2026 26-28 Aug	Online	3 days	£1,350.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced SQL	Thu/Fri 03-04 September 2026 03-04 Sep	Manchester	2 days	£1,150.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to SQL	Mon/Tue 07-08 September 2026 07-08 Sep	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to SQL	Tue/Wed 08-09 September 2026 08-09 Sep	London	2 days	£1,425.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced SQL	Tue/Wed 08-09 September 2026 08-09 Sep	London	2 days	£1,525.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced SQL	Thu/Fri 17-18 September 2026 17-18 Sep	Online	2 days	£995.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to SQL	Thu/Fri 24-25 September 2026 24-25 Sep	Manchester	2 days	£1,050.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Fast track SQL	Mon/Wed 28-30 September 2026 28-30 Sep	Online	3 days	£1,350.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to SQL	Wed/Thu 07-08 October 2026 07-08 Oct	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced SQL	Thu/Fri 15-16 October 2026 15-16 Oct	Online	2 days	£995.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to SQL	Thu/Fri 22-23 October 2026 22-23 Oct	London	2 days	£1,425.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced SQL	Thu/Fri 22-23 October 2026 22-23 Oct	London	2 days	£1,525.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Fast track SQL	Wed/Fri 28-30 October 2026 28-30 Oct	Online	3 days	£1,350.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced SQL	Mon/Tue 02-03 November 2026 02-03 Nov	Manchester	2 days	£1,150.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to SQL	Mon/Tue 09-10 November 2026 09-10 Nov	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced SQL	Mon/Tue 16-17 November 2026 16-17 Nov	Online	2 days	£995.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to SQL	Mon/Tue 23-24 November 2026 23-24 Nov	Manchester	2 days	£1,050.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Fast track SQL	Mon/Wed 30th Nov/2nd December 2026 30 Nov-02 Dec	Online	3 days	£1,350.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to SQL	Mon/Tue 07-08 December 2026 07-08 Dec	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced SQL	Mon/Tue 14-15 December 2026 14-15 Dec	Online	2 days	£995.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book

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If you can't see the course you want listed above, don't despair! If you can muster 3 or 4 people together, it may well be worth organising an onsite course at your office (we'll provide and set up the computers), or else an online course tailored to your needs.

Our SQL classroom training venues

What other people have said about our SQL training

Here are some comments we've received about our SQL + training. You can see all of our 426 reviews here. We would like to sincerely thank the clients whose names are shown below for kindly agreeing to let us share their feedback.

"Very happy with the content and the trainer, who was great and was able to answer our specific questions and tailor examples to our roles."

Jaden Bhanabhai

Adidas UK

"Having attended Wise Owl courses before, I knew this would be the best way to learn more about SQL in a structured setting. I enjoyed the course and the content covered many useful SQL features. The trainer was friendly and welcoming and his delivery was excellent. He is clearly very knowledgeable about SQL and was able to answer all of our questions with ease. He gave us plenty of time to do the exercises with his help, which was particularly good as I sometimes find I forget things if I don't take the time to do them myself, once I've learnt them. Although a basic level of knowledge of SQL is naturally assumed going into an advanced course, I was never put on the spot or had to recall things that weren't in the course. I quite liked that approach."

Conor Fegan

Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG)

"Excellent course for me as a relative beginner/novice to both SQL and Report Builder. An excellent trainer, friendly and patient to deal with any issues. Very knowledgeable on the course subjects, offering clear and concise explanations throughout. Adaptable to deal with any questions with easy-to-follow answers/examples."

Paul Ash

Hertfordshire County Council

"A really helpful course, the content was just right in terms of a mix of more simple and more advanced tasks. I learned loads of new stuff. Our trainer was great and I'd recommend the company again."

Jenny Bowman

University of Lincoln

"Very enjoyable course, communication and procedure from start to finish was great as well. I had everything I needed well in advance, which is a huge plus; this meant no faffing around on the day-of and we were straight in there."

Bradley Swift

Torus62 Ltd

"An excellent trainer, efficient and knowledgeable. If someone dropped from the session he'd get them up to speed quickly and without disrupting the flow of the course. The course was well designed and the exercises helped to cement lessons. I also have the physical course manual and exercises, which will be a great resource for me going forward."

Angus Wood

Liberty Speciality Markets / Global

About our SQL training

Sick of having to contact your IT people or third party supplier to get at your own data? Learn to write queries to get at it yourself, using either SQL Server Management Studio or (by request) Azure Data Studio. We run two scheduled courses: a two-day introduction to SQL course, and a two-day advanced SQL course.

If you're a quick learner you could consider combining these two courses together and attending our single three-day fast-track course (but only if you're a quick learner).

Two-day introductory course - selecting data using SQL

This course will show you how to write queries like the one below using T-SQL, the dialect of SQL used within Microsoft's SQL Server:

-- show how many films there are for each certificate

SELECT

c.Certificate,

COUNT(*) as 'Number of films'

FROM

Film as f

INNER JOIN Certificate AS c

ON f.CertificateID = c.CertificateID

GROUP BY

c.Certificate

ORDER BY

-- show most popular certificate first

'Number of films' DESC

This won't necessarily make much sense to you now, but it will do after the course!

Two-day advanced SQL course - programming stored procedures

This course assumes that you know how to write queries, and shows you how to program in SQL, including using variables, writing stored procedures and functions and using table variables and temporary tables. Here's a sample of what you'll learn to do:

CREATE PROC spListFilms(

@minOscars int,

@maxOscars int

)

-- list films winning this many Oscars

SELECT

f.Title,

f.OscarWins

FROM

Film AS f

WHERE

f.OscarWins between @minOscars and @maxOscars

Still not sure which is the right course for you? There's more help available here.

Finally, note that we're also big believers in teaching you not just how to write queries, but how to write them well, following our own internal SQL coding standards.

FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)

Click on any heading below to learn more.

How can I contact you with any questions?▼

You can reach us in one of the following ways:

Contact method	Details
Phone	Call us on (0161) 883 3606 and (within normal UK office hours) a friendly and helpful human will answer the phone!
Email	Send an email to our inbox and we'll aim to answer it within a couple of working hours.
Web	Fill in an enquiry form letting us know what you want to achieve, and we'll do our best to help!

Do you offer SQL consultancy too?▼

If you can't invest the time to learn to write SQL, why not let our SQL gurus do it for you? Get specific details about our SQL consultancy, or more general information about how our consultancy works.

Is there an easy way for me to assess my SQL skills?▼

You can take the following tests to assess your SQL skills on this site:

Skills you want to test
SQL (for SQL Server)

Each tests consists of 20 questions. The tests are free and anonymous, and at the end you'll see a full analysis of your results (as well as a comparison of how well you did relative to everyone else who has previously taken the test).

Do you have any SQL videos?▼

We've got the following videos on our site to help you to learn SQL:

Category	Description	Videos
Selecting data in SQL	Basic SQL teaching (approximately equivalent to the topics on our Introduction to SQL training course).	12
Advanced SQL (programming)	Creating stored procedures and user-defined functions, using variables, working with temporary tables and table variables, and all aspects of SQL programming (roughly equivalent to the contents of our Advanced SQL course).	18
SQL Server 2016	Videos on how to perform some useful system maintenance and admin tasks for SQL Server 2016.	9
SQL Server 2017	Videos on how to get started with SQL Server 2017 so that you can follow along with some of our other video series.	3

Do you ever blog about SQL?▼

For insights and education on writing SQL, have a browse through some of these blogs:

Blog topic
SQL

Do you have any other SQL learning resources?▼

In addition to our classroom and online SQL training courses, we also have the following learning resources:

Resource	Notes
Online tutorials	Learn SQL from our free online tutorials
Tips and tricks	Useful tips and tricks to make SQL easier

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